Distillery owner Abigail Logan discovers that high spirits are no match for a cold-blooded killer as the Whisky Business Mystery series puts a fatal twist on stiff competition.
It’s been a year since globe-trotting photojournalist Abi Logan inherited Abbey Glen, a whisky distillery in the heart of the Scottish countryside. To her surprise, the village of Balfour already feels like home, and her new business partner, Grant MacEwan, continues to be too charming to resist. But Abi has a history of relationship disasters, so she struggles to avoid an ill-fated romance with Grant. Steering clear is hard enough on a day-to-day basis, but when the two head off to a whisky industry competition together, Abi panics. Five-star resort, four glorious days of nonstop whisky tasting, and a fatally attractive Scotsman—what could possibly go wrong?
The night before the award presentations, with foreign and domestic whisky makers at one anothers’ throats, two judges are found dead under mysterious circumstances. What started with three dream-come-true nominations for Abby Glen’s whisky soon turns into a nightmare for Abi. With a killer on the loose, she must call on her investigative skills to stop another murder—before she gets taken out of the running herself.
Abi, along with her friend Patrick, her business partner Grant and Abby Glen's chief distiller Cam, have a few days at a top notch lodge for the Annual Quaich competition (a way of show casing the best of the different whiskies, new comers as well as traditional distillers), the first night there there are a couple of upsets, firstly a blast from Grant's past in the form of a rather stunning female distiller (Welsh distillery) and then a death, and apparently not a natural death either. The problem is Patrick was the last person to see the victim alive, and when there is another death of another judge things start to look very bad in the whisky business.
With the local police being short staffed, Abi is drafted in (mainly because of her photography skills, but also because she can keep her eyes and ears open among the whisky people), this was a wonderfully crafted story that had the twists and turns you anticipate from a good mystery, and I for one certainly didn't expect the twist at the end!
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